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Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Coconut Walnut Truffles

As you may already know (or guessed) by the other recipes on my blog, I stick to mostly old fashioned home baking and treats. We don't have any food allergies or intolerances in my family, so I basically cook whatever takes my fancy. I am however, happy to cater to anyone else's dietary requirements. If I am visiting someone or having a friend over, I'm more than happy to make something that they can eat.

This recipe I came across while I was cutting up the Wiggles magazine to make this garland. I was quite surprised to find this recipe and see that it was not only easy to make, but yummy sounding too. Maybe it's just me, but I don't generally expect to find many adult friendly (i.e. food adults will eat) recipes in a children's magazine!

This should suit anyone who is gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, peanut-free, egg free...and so on. I don't know much about the Paleo diet, but I'm pretty sure walnuts are ok. The original recipe had made these as cookies, but I felt they would work better as bite size morsels, so I adapted them.

You will need a food processor or blender that can grind nuts for this recipe.

Walnut Coconut Truffles

(makes 16)

Ingredients

1 cup walnuts

½ cup unsweetened coconut (I used desiccated) + extra for coating

2 Tbsp organic Maple Syrup

½ Tsp organic Vanilla extract

Pinch Rock Salt

Method

Put the walnuts in a food processor and run until you have a fine crumb.

Add all the other ingredients and blend until you have a dough consistency. If the mixture looks a little wet, blend in more coconut.

Roll teaspoonfuls of mixture into balls. Once they are all rolled, roll formed balls in extra coconut until outside is coated.

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